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Show PROVO POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1921. THE PROVO POST - . are store managers and some of them own stores, and all of . r em throw business my way. Thy little story of one mans success, may have sugges tions for business men and ambitious young fellows here in Provo's Popular Newspaper Published Each Tuesday and Friday By THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY v 125 West Center St. Phone IS . - ' Provo. -- The success of a business depends upon the number of Time spent in cultivating personal friends it with friendship people who come into this city from outside, is very well invested. Every new face and name you can remember, every stranger who is made to feel that his interests are carefully considered when he buys stuff in this city, means one more permanent customer for the store, and one more family which looks to this community (as its trading -:- NEPH HICKS Editor and Manager can-mak- Entered at the postoffice at Provo City, Utah, as second N. . class matter. x . Subscription Terms t - - One Year Six' Months Three Months i - $3.00 1.50 ,75 N SUPTORT A'UOME INDLSTPY BY SUBSCRIBING s. t NOW We know of nothing that has such a far reaching effect on the actions of public officials as the light of publicity. It serves as a constant guard against extravagance and favoritism and inspires public servants to do only those things which they honestly believe will receive the endorsement of . the peoples For that reason a bill w.ill be introduced in legislature .during the present session providing for the publication of the proceedings of the boards ofcounty I , The conception of such a law is in no ways a charge' that irregularities exist or have existed in the proceedings of any of the boards of county commissioners, for the various boards are made up of honorable men they are all honorable men," but there have been instances in which' one portion of a county has suffered because of favoritism for another portion, and money, which should have Jeen more equally distributed has brought forth unfavorable comment. r There have egn Instances in which certain contractors, in building of roads, perhap, have been favored and it has been made possible, through such favoritism fof the 'con- tractor to reap an undue profit from work but poorly done. Had the sunshine of publicity been allowed to filter through the walls of the commissioners rooms' this would not have . ; -- -- happened. The indigent rolls of many of the counties of .Utah today carry the names of scores of persons quietly accepted as in need of county assistance, who, if their names were to have been made public never would have applied for bread at the county table. These people were shielded by their commissioner who would not have dared to seek their placing on the indigent list if the true facts were known. r Publicity is a remedy for many public ills, and while the cost of publicity may be heavy, it would prove a profitable investment, m eliminating much official wrong. It is not with a desire to add to the expenses of the county that The Post advocates the passage ofaJaw.prK vidlng for thpublication of the proceedings of the boards ofcounty commissioners, but it is urged purely as an economic measure. The publicity would save every county in the state miny times its cost by preventing extravagances which are frequently encouraged by the fact that the pubJ ... . ' -- Statistics compiled vocational workers of the South in session at Montgomery show that preparations of meals' for an average family means a two-midaily kitchen marathon for the housewife. These figures were obtained by means of a pedometer attached to students in a model home. -- le According to a statement recently made by Adjt.-Ge- n. P. C. Harris, at Washington, the government at present is holding in disciplinary barracks only 1760 offenders con- -' victed of misdemeanors and military offenses during their service in the war. The Post has always been interested in the work of our hoys and girls dubs, recognizing therein a source of great value to our community and to the nation.- We are therefore especially interested to find in the Weekly News Letter of the United States Department of Agriculture, a report which tells us that supervision of boys and girls poultry clubs by this department of the government, in with state agriculture colleges was continued during the last fiscal year in seven states. In these states there were 1186 clubs with 29,480 members, of whom 12,786 made reports from which the following totals have beeh compiled : Eggs set 731,709 ; chicks hatched, 510,478 ; value of products sold, $94,791.32; value of stock on hand, $382,277.37 ; exhibits within ?GOOD REFERENCES" ' -- PEERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. pide pase. yearti would Matinee 2:30 WILLIAM RUSSELL rfCt m A CRYSTAL washer costs less to run than an electric iron. It is guaranteed not to consume more than 2c worth of electricity an hour The H h.p. motor cannot overheat, bum out, or be damaged by water It is mounted on a wooden base to insure silence and - is thoroughly insulated from the - washer itself n lbll Th raffle - Also love, Altai tea. f tach v EDDIE POLO Mt ihe i . Mt TUESDAY BEBE DANIELS -- In She Couldnt Help Tt . TONIGHT AND SAT, EILEEN PERCY - ", The v" 'In. Land of Jazz ' f in round numbers as against $6,772,000,000 for the previous year, Collections income and profits taxes to- -, taled $3,570,000,000 last compared with $4, 33?, 000,-00- 0 r, in 1919. . 000 V. According to a report submitted to congress there was in government warehouses last September 30 a total of gallons of spirits, 44,500,643 gallons of which was : whisky. ' . 47,-991,5- 26 Japanese families arriving in Texas to settle on farming lands are informed by citizens that their presence is undesirable. The growth of sentiment in the. Rio Grande Valley is said to have awakened a wide-spredemand for protective measures similar to those in Calianti-Japanes- e ... fornia. ad The California senate adopts a resolution requesting the national government to agree to no treaty with Japan that would nullify the states antialien land law or grant the right of citizenship to Japanese. According to information recently gathered by the American government, it appears that the American navy tohas more double than day the strength of the Japanese navy and. about half that of the British navy. A movement is on foot in Kansas to form a state organization to oppose the activities of A' C. Townley and other non-pa- rt izan league leaders in that 'state who" are seeking to establish the league there.. I The official figures of various state election canvassing boards show a total popular vote of 26,759,708 for the canr, -- didates of seveir parties at theIastelection, as compared with a total popular vote of 18,515,340 for the candidates of five parties in 1916. . - - r , . r , in the burley districts of Kentucky, rs Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio, in a convention at Lexington, where more than 100,000 tobacco-groweare represented, decide to. raise no tobacco the current during year, in, order ' .' to raise prices. - rs - j" Marine disasters on the Great Lakes in 1920 totaled 8 .losses of vessels and 29 lives lost against 19 vessel losses and 80 lives lost the preceding year. i" 4 Warren G. Harding mailed his resignation from the United States senate to former Mayor Harry Davis, of Cleveland, who became governor of Ohio an Jan-- " t uary 10. n'iY cl offer7of t n V An two new series of treasury certificates, the; combined issue being jfor about $250, 000,000, .is announced! 'br Secretary Tlohston. . one BATES STORES COMPANY Phone 203 33 E. Center, Opposite Courthouse maturing April 15 1 Utah No. 3 King of The Circus President-elec- prt' ktfe COW 7 Tobacco-growe- 11 iceepl Utah The Challenge of The Law A tense; gripping drama, .with .a story as sweet as a June rose. ", Speaking of traveling salesmen, a business man remarked the other day that some of them didnt seem to be making any effort to sell their goods. They $ould roll into town, smiling all over, shaking hands with everybody. You would think they were capitalists going back to visit the homes of their boyhood. But in spite of apparent lack of effort, they would always get out of town with a good fat sheaf of orders. r I asked one of those fellows the other day how he did it, said the merchant who was speaking, Thought it would ' r help me in my business. . Well, I tell you how I did it," was the reply I got. T started out in this game ten years ago with the idea of know ing everybody along my route. Id shake hands with the errand boy with just as much enthusiasm the. aw r asjwith ,.wt. to know took all them boss, I pains by name. and business talk with the greenest clerk in Id stop the store. Not jollies and bull, but business talk and telling them how they could sell stuff. Now a lot of these fellows - il . held, 712; members exhibiting, 5615; prizes received, $9681.11. A feature of progress was the improvement in quality of fowls bred by club members. In numerous instances the boys and girls won prizes in open competition with older and established breeders. ' If this vast amount of money can be ' made in seven states on poultry alone, is it not worth while that agricultural clubs of various kinds be encouraged irrevery'state lrr the union? - -- r it wo' SATURDAY; ; brt kd - The cost of running the United States government last year was approximately $5,064,000,000 as against about $11, 728,000,000 in 1919, according to figures of the treasury. Ordinary receipts for 1920 amounted to $6,431,000,- - tfcMti tbit i In -I- h tW rongo ANNA ALICE CHAPLINS Mountain Madness - . TONIGHT CONSTANCE TALMADGE CURRENT EVENTS 'A 'total of 2,325,000 workers are out of employment in the country, according to a survey of the industrial situation made for the current issue of Labor, official "organ of the Plumb Plan League. In tilled dent JVIONDAY AND TUESDAY VALUE IN AGRICULTURAL CLUBS. ' ; Under the above caption in a recent issue of the Salt Lake Tribune appeared the following editorial which no doubt voices the sentiment of a yast majority of the people of this state; In the frontier days whenever a horse thief was tured he was strung up to the nearest tree. The penalty seems harsh until we take into consideration the fact that when a pioneer was bereft of his horses his family was in danger of starvation. So by common consent it was held that a horse thief was not fit to live. In these days horse stealing is rare. We have auto thieves instead of the desperadoes of half a century ago. , Some of these auto thieves, are bandits who steal cars in order to make, their escape after committing some other crime, such as highway robbery or looting a bank.. They should be discouraged a much-o- s possible; and we believe the man who rides off in some- -' body elses automobile should be made to suffer for it. We would not have him hanged, shot or . electrocuted, but we would lock him up long enough to make him see the error of his ways. There has been too much leniency in such cases in times past and the statutes have been too weak. WA electoi to - AUTO THEFT BILL. com-mipsiote- rs. will never know UMBIA J , 11 e. The people who buy in distant cities, and send away to mail .order hausesr4prget4he, value of these personal relations. When they buy in their home towns or natural trading centers, they form relations with a group of men who value them as regular customer?, and take special pains to pleasefthem. Such business friendships prove valuable in unexpiected .ways, and are often the means of opening up new paths to success. v PUBLICITY AN ECONOMIC FACTOR. lic At The Theatres ' center. j : Bit Loth series are dated January ll, and the other October 15. The heads of commercial enterprises said to represent $30,000,000,000 plan a campaign to urge people to buy now and put the men back to work, to restore business conditions to normal. 1 |